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This year the Kids Art Beat will feature hands-on
arts & crafts with the Art Miles Mural Project.
These two wonderful activities promote children's creativity and allow them
to participate in spreading global harmony. The Sophia Isadora Academy of
Circus Arts will also be making their debut appearance at the Festival of
the Arts this year, performing daring acrobatics in dazzling costumes. Other
activities include storytelling, magic tricks, and craft projects from
Michaels. Scroll down for more details!
Art Miles Mural
Project
The San Diego Met High School and The
Art Miles Mural Project, who have formed a partnership with the North Park Festival of the Arts. Interns from the high
school will work with the mural project to create a mural at the
festival. The Art Miles Project is an international nonprofit
organization dedicated to creating harmony and peace through art, in
addition to teaching children about cultures around the work. Their goal is
to complete 12 themed miles to be exhibited during the "Exhibition of the
Century" in 2010, when the works will be wrapped around the pyramids in
Egypt to celebrate the Decade of Peace. The project will also try to break
the record for the Longest Mural in the World.
For more information on the Art Miles
Mural Project, visit their website:
www.the-art-miles-mural-project.org.


Sophia Isadora
Academy of Circus Arts
The Festival of the Arts is proud to
present the Sophia Isadora Academy of Circus Arts. The academy was
established during the spring of 2005. Founded by Cheryl Lindley and Rogelio
Lopez, the Sophia Isadora Academy of Circus Arts grew out of experiences
associated with the Fern Street Circus which was founded in 1990 by John
Highkin and Cindy Zimmerman. This circus school's course of study entails
traditional circus arts and related disciplines in order to provide a modern
interdisciplinary approach. To address this mission, the school seeks to
offer quality training for children, young people, and adults that will lead
to the development of technical and creative abilities in the circus arts.
The school emphasizes training in basics such as: acrobatics, flexibility,
and development of body strength and coordination; as well as circus
disciplines as aerial arts and manipulation arts. Be sure to check them out!
For more information on the Sophia
Isadora Academy of Circus Arts, visit their website:
www.lindleylopezproductions.com.

Peace Flags by Kids
Peace Flags for Kids will also create
an atmosphere of creativity, education, and an appreciation for diversity,
by allowing children to create flags depicting their ideas about peace and
global harmony. The project provides kids with an avenue of expression and
encourages them to be wise leaders, teachers, healers and more. The project
started on August 6, 2006, on the international day of forgiveness and their
ultimate goal is to hang the flags around the world so that the children's
messages of peace can be heard globally.
For more information about Peace Flags by Kids, visit
their website:
www.peaceflagsbykids.org

Sponsored by the Barona Band of Mission Indians

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